Point Solutions in an Enterprise Management World: The Network Management Appliance
August 2001
LTC S. Mills, U.S. Army V Corps
Colin M. Valentine, The MITRE Corporation
Henry A. Werchan, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
This paper will discuss development and testing of the Network Management Appliance (NMA), a protocol and bandwidth management device that has been developed and used by the U.S. Army V Corps as part of the tactical network management strategy. Previous capabilities have focused on aggregate bandwidth management using SNMP management tools such as the Multi-router Traffic Grapher (MRTG). Unfortunately, in the highly bandwidth-constrained tactical environment, tools such as MRTG only reveal the obvious—saturated links. V Corps required more visibility into what protocols, applications,and users were saturating the links. Based on this requirement, the NMA—a between a protocol analyzer and an RMON probe—was developed from COTS hardware and open source software. The information provided by the NMA has enabled V Corps to take a proactive stance in shaping bandwidth utilization and increasing the quality of service to the Warfighter.
Additional Search Keywords
enterprise management, network management, bandwidth management, protocol distribution, protocol analyzer, MRTG, NTOP, SNMP, RMON
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